Association between neurological, dermatological and psychological disorders: levels of depression, anxiety, and somatization among patients and healthy controls

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The association between psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and somatization and chronic medical illnesses such as migraine and psoriasis was investigated. Fifty five migraine patients, 51 psoriasis patients, and 54 control participants participated in the study. More specifically, psoriasis patients', migraine patients', and healthy controls' depression, anxiety, and somatization levels were compared across groups. In order to determine the mean scores, standard deviations, and frequencies' of demographic variables descriptive statistical analyses were conducted. Moreover, mean and standard deviation scores were obtained for each variable. In order to determine the group differences separate one-tailed analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc analyses were conducted. Migraine patients obtained higher scores of depression, anxiety, and somatization than psoriasis patients and control participants. Psoriasis patients obtained significantly higher scores of anxiety than healthy controls. Yet, psoriasis patients did not obtain significantly higher depression and somatization scores than control participants. Thus, migraine patients are more likely to have depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms than healthy individuals, and psoriasis patients are more likely to have anxiety symptoms than healthy individuals.
Psoriasis., Migraine., Anxiety., Psychology., Depressed persons., Somatization disorder., Psychology M.S. thesis
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23781
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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T. Uyar, “Association between neurological, dermatological and psychological disorders: levels of depression, anxiety, and somatization among patients and healthy controls,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2014.
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